There have been questions about the role frailty plays in decisional regret after surgery, but new research suggests decisional regret may be driven more by comorbidity, disability and the type of surgery than by frailty itself.
To investigate whether frailty is associated with decisional regret—the negative emotion that arises when a patient thinks their situation might have turned out better if they’d made different treatment choices—Yonathan Agung, a fourth-year medical